I Would Love an Explanation of Jeremy Renner’s Musical Career, But Then Again Maybe Not

Our planet (Earth) is constantly in orbit. Each day, each hour, each minute, this giant floating sphere in the sky is rotating around the sun, while also spinning each day on its axis, creating our seasons, our nights, our days. Science be damned, though, because all that cosmic balance came to a screeching halt on Wednesday afternoon when Jeremy Renner put out a simple social media message for the world to see.

"Coming soon..." the message said, accompanied by a video. It was a short clip—just 21 seconds—but it's perhaps the most mind-bending, thought-provoking, unexplainable 21-second clip that you will ever see in your entire life. Without forewarning or explanation, once you hit that little triangle button that sets the video in motion, you became immediately entrenched in the bizarre world of Jeremy Renner, Musician.

It's something like The Matrix: once you enter, there's no turning back.

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Let's take a second here. I know you'll need it. I needed it. First off, no, your breakfast didn't have any LSD in it (not that I know of, at least)—that's Jeremy Renner, star of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, busting out some Imagine Dragons-esque bars in what looks like a home recording studio, followed by a few seconds of what sounds like a song that really wants to be played in a commercial for a new brand of lumber. If you told me this little video was a skit in the upcoming second season (!) of Tim Robinson's absurdist Netflix sketch comedy show I Think You Should Leave, I would not bat an eye and would go on with my life. But that does not appear to be the case.

Jeremy Renner, believe it or not, has actually dabbled in music before. In the credits of Tag, he sings a cover of a Crash Test Dummies song for literally no reason.

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He also has recorded an entire song with Dutch DJ Sam Feldt before, which somehow slipped through the cracks, because—and I cannot reiterate this enough—it is extremely odd.

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What is going on here? Seriously, what in the world is happening? Why is this happening? I don't like it. It doesn't make any sense. Make it stop.

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Scroll through Renner's Instagram just a little bit and you can see that he's been hinting toward this for a little while. In a post from May 28th, Renner wrote, "Back to work at RSM... new music sharing soon #bigfunsummer#announcing#soon#excitedtoshare". On May 18th, another post, seemingly sponsored by Fender guitars, featured Renner playing guitar over a song that sounds a lot like the vocals that he's now revealed to the world.

How did we all miss this?

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I think there's only one thing to do after exposure to this: Just accept Jeremy Renner for what he is. Accept that Hawkeye is not just any actor but an eccentric house-flipping, music-making, multi-hyphenate hopeful star and occasional actor in superhero movies that make billions of dollars.

I mean, we could also get into the Jeremy Renner app, but we'll probably all be best off saving that one for another time.

Evan RomanoEvan is an associate editor for Men’s Health, with bylines in The New York Times, MTV News, Brooklyn Magazine, and VICE.

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